Charlotte D. ​Smith, PhD

Biography

Charlotte D. Smith is a faculty member of the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, and a Visiting Professor at the Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara – Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO). Her research interests include the microbial ecology and control of waterborne pathogens, and using geospatial statistics to explore the pathway from environmental exposures, including contaminated water, to acute and chronic diseases (e.g., diarrheal and/or kidney disease). Current community-based participatory research in Guadalajara focuses on access to water as a human right under UN Resolution 64-292. Dr. Smith teaches GIS and Spatial Analysis for Health Equity , and Applied GIS for Public Health. She enjoys mentoring graduate and undergraduate students.

Dr. Smith holds a BS in Microbiology from the University of Michigan, an MAS in Spatial Analysis from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, an MA in Community Health from the City University of New York, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management – Academic Network of the Americas, GIS Latin America, and the Organization of American States – Pan American Institute for Geography and History. She received the John Leal Public Health Award in 2022, the Jorge Matute Remus Award in 2019, and the Zak Sabry Mentorship Award in 2016.

Research Interests

• Impact assessment and evaluation of water systems and public health in urban and rural Mexican communities
• Central American communities
• Microbial ecology of waterborne pathogens
• Bacterial endosymbionts of free-living protozoa

Education

• PhD – Environmental Health Science
  University of California, Berkeley
• MAS – Spatial Analysis
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• MA – Community Health
  City University of New York
• BS – Microbiology
  University of Michigan

Publications

• Charlotte Smith's Bibliography - NIH National Library of Medicine

Courses Taught

• • Summer Session C | PHN177
  • Applied GIS for Public Health
• • SP2 OOMPH | PHW277
  • Applied GIS for Public Health Practice
• • Spring | PH177A
  • GIS and Spatial Analysis for Health Equity
• • Spring | PH277A
  • GIS and Spatial Analysis for Health Equity
• • Fall at ITESO – Guadalajara, Mexico
  • GIS Applications in Environmental Health

Affiliations

• United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management – Academic Network of the Americas
• Organization of American States – Pan American Institute of Geography and History
• Visiting Professor – Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (Fall Semesters)